Quotes on Hopes And Expectations

When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.